A conceptual paradigm for understanding culture's impact on mental health: The cultural influences on mental health (CIMH) model

Clinical Psychology Review

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 211-227

  Hwang, Wei Chin ^a   Myers, Hector F ^b   Abe Kim, Jennifer ^c   Ting, Julia Y ^d  

^a CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE COURSE; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ETHNICITY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STIGMA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; MALE; MIGRATION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOMATOFORM DISORDER;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL VALUES; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 38649141535     PISSN: 02727358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2007.05.001     Document Type: Review

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